An Examination of Organizational and Professional Commitment among Public, Not-for-Profit, and Proprietary Social Service Employees

Administration in Social Work

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 5-23

  Giffords, Elissa D ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auspice and demographics; Organizational commitment; Professional commitment; Social service employees

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442275825     PISSN: 03643107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J147v27n03_02     Document Type: Article

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